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Version: 2025

Tab order in a window, a page, etc.
The tab order of the controls found in a window or in a page describes the order in which the controls take focus in a window when the user presses the [Tabulation] key...
Viewing a window in 3 dimensions
Your window contains overlapping controls?...
The "Modifier"pane
The "Modifier" pane is used to view and/or modify, from the window editor, page editor or report editor, the main characteristics...
Skin template
WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to customize the interface of your applications via several preset interfaces...
Handling the views of a window
To easily handle huge windows (that cannot be entirely displayed in the editor for example), WINDEV and WINDEV Mobile allows you to handle several views of the same window...
Snap to grid
The different editors of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to align the elements via a snap-on grid...
The "Window position preview" pane
The "Window position preview" pane is used to view and/or modify the opening position of the windows currently modified (according to the screen resolution used)...
Creating a skin template from an existing skin template
You can create a skin template from an existing skin template (provided by PC SOFT, for example)...
Creating an executable without library
When creating an executable, you can choose not to use a library or not to include all the elements of the project in the library...
Enlarging a window or page
Modern UIs generally use larger windows, pages and fonts...
Testing a window
Testing a single window allows you to run the current window in WINDEV or WINDEV Mobile...
Special paste
The Special paste command is used to explicitly choose the format in which the clipboard content will be pasted in the window editor...
Copying the style of a control
Copying the style of a control consists in copying the characteristics of a control style into another control...
WINDEV: Windows created via the RAD model
The window creation wizard offers many types of windows associated with HFSQL data files...
Automatic positioning
When moving a control in a window, in a page or in a report, guides are automatically displayed by the real-time interface checker (also called automatic positioning)...
Spacing out a selection of controls
To create modern interfaces, you need to increase spacing between the controls in your windows...
Carrying over the differences from an element to another one
The project comparator is used to compare two elements and to list the differences found...
Zoom in the different editors
All editors of WINDEV, WEBDEV and WINDEV Mobile allow you to zoom in on the different elements displayed in the editor...
Interface checker
The advanced interface checker is a tool that allows you to improve the layout of controls in the different windows of the application...
Project comparator
Comparing two windows (two pages, two reports, two classes, ...
Alignment options
To optimize the alignment of controls in a window, page or report, you have the ability to use the alignment options...
Alignment rulers (Editor)
When creating or modifying a window in the window editor, you have the ability to display the alignment rulers...
Code statistics
The code statistics affect...
Anchoring applied to window controls
The windows of a WINDEV application can be resized at runtime...
Creating a window skin template
HSetCache (Function)
Used to configure the management of caches in the HFSQL Client/Server engine....
HListConnectedUser (Function)
Lists the users currently connected to one or more files handled by a Client/Server connection....
HDeleteDatabase (Function)
Deletes a database located on an HFSQL server.
HResetClient (Function)
Initializes the structure for managing the Client computers (HClient structure).
grOverlayChart (Function)
Used to display two different types of charts in the same chart.
Map control properties
The following properties can be used with Map controls:...
SemaphoreCreate (Function)
Creates a semaphore.
GPSLastPosition (Function)
Retrieves the information about the last known device position.
zipExtractAll (Function)
Extracts all files from an archive and decompresses them.
BurnerCompilationInfo (Function)
Retrieves the characteristics of current compilation.
IntToHexa (Function)
Returns the hexadecimal string of a numeric value.
SchedulerChangeMode (Function)
Modifies the period (which means the number of days) displayed by a Scheduler control.
HInfoGroup (Function)
Returns information about the specified group of users.
HInfoDatabaseRights (Function)
Allows you to find out the rights granted to a user or to a group on a database.
LanguageToCharset (Function)
Returns the character set corresponding to a language.
ComboOpen (Function)
Expands the list of a Combo Box control (single-column or multi-column Combo Box).
TimeDifference (Function)
Calculates the difference between two times in hundredths of a second.
MySelf (Reserved word)
MySelf is used to handle the current control...
grPiePullOut (Function)
Pulls out a section (or all sections) in a chart.
<Map>.DisplayPosition (Function)
Centers the map displayed in a Map control on a geographical position or on a specific location.
grScatterSeriesColor (Function)
Initializes the color of a series in a "Scatter" chart.
grGradient (Function)
Enables or disables the display of color gradients in a chart.
fTime (Function)
Returns or modifies the different times associated with a file or directory (date created, modified or accessed).
SaaSIsConnected (Function)
Defines whether the connection to the SaaS web service is still established.
Character strings
WLanguage supports different types of strings....